The infamous former Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
The 48-year-old was expelled from the Conservative Party and later resigned from his seat in West Yorkshire after being convicted of the 2008 attack following a trial at Southwark Crown Court last month.
Condemning Monday’s verdict, Judge Baker said Khan had shown “significant brutality” before the attack. The court heard that he forced the boy to drink gin, dragged him upstairs, pushed him to bed and asked him to watch pornography before attacking him at a home party in Staffordshire.
The victim, now 29, told the jury he was left feeling “scared, vulnerable, numb, shocked and surprised” after Khan, then 34, touched his feet and legs, entering “a hair’s breadth”. “From his genitals, in the top. bunk bed after the party.
Mr Baker said: “I am pleased that the complainant was particularly vulnerable and not only was he 15 years old at the time of the crime, but I accept his mother’s description that he was not very secular and very young for his age. ”
Addressing Khan, he said: “Although it is possible to allow yourself to believe over the years that you have missed out on this crime, I am sure you knew from the beginning that there was a risk of a reporting day. “
Khan ‘s crime dates back to 2008
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He said the former politician had not shown remorse, adding: “The only regret you feel is that you find yourself in the predicament you face as a result of your actions about 14 years ago.”
Khan showed no emotion when he was taken to his cells, carrying, among his belongings, a bag from a prestigious men’s store.
He said he would appeal his sentence, and Gudrun Young QC, defending himself, said Monday: “Mr Khan denies the crime and says he is not guilty today.
His unidentified victim said he had “suicidal thoughts” and problems with his relationships and work. “Because of this attack during my teenage years, I found it difficult to touch me in any way,” he said.
“My mental health deteriorated rapidly after I decided to go out and had to constantly go through an event that I had been trying to bury for so long,” he continued.
“I struggled with guilt that I had brought my family back to a terrible ordeal that they would rather forget and watch them struggle with their own guilt for letting this man into the house.
The court heard that the victim was “inconsolable” when he spoke to his parents after the attack.
A report was filed with the police in January 2008, but no further action was taken as the boy did not want to lodge a formal complaint.
However, he filed a formal complaint after Khan was elected Wakefield MP in the December 2019 general election.
The victim claims that he was not “taken very seriously” when he raised the incident in the press center of the Conservative Party days before Khan’s victory.
Conservative MP Crispin Blunt defended Khan, saying he “did not get a fair trial”
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Khan denied sexual assault, claiming he touched the Catholic teenager’s elbow only when he “became extremely upset” after talking about his sexuality.
He dismissed any suggestion that their relationship was sexual, instead saying he had been involved in a “philosophical” discussion about sexuality with the teenager all night.
A separate allegation alleges that Khan sexually abused a man while sleeping in a guest house in Pakistan, where the disgraced MP was working on a project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prosecutors said it was “just technical” that he was not charged with a second attack.
One of Khan’s former conservative colleagues, MP Crispin Blunt, defended him, claiming twice that he had not received a “fair trial”.
Addressing for the second time on Sunday, the former justice minister said his assessment remained that Khan was facing a “serious miscarriage of justice”.
The Conservative Party condemned Mr Blunt’s views as “completely unacceptable”.
The by-elections at Hahn’s former headquarters in Wakefield will take place on June 23.
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